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Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

mduduzi — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:21:43 GMT

Hi, We have a requirement to hide Create Folder from non-admin users and when we edit the file toolbar.lib.ftl as follows I get the Upload button is disabled as well: <#if user.isAdmin> <div class="hideable toolbar-hidden DocListTree"> <div class="new-folder"&

Re: Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

scouil — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:24:00 GMT

Hi,

Here is an comment in alfresco's code

<blockcode>
<!–
         Create Content menu items, can be of 3 types matching the usual doclib action config:

         * "link" - accepts a "href" param that will be passed a nodeRef token for substitution, used for external links
         * "pagelink" - accepts a "page" param that will be passed a nodeRef token for substitution, used for Share links
         * "javascript" - accepts & "function" param of an action that will get the current folder item as first argument.

         I.e.
         <content id="plain-text" label="create-content.text" icon="text" type="pagelink">
            <param name="page">create-content?destination={nodeRef}&itemId=cm:content&mimeType=text/plain</param>
            <permissions>
               <permission allow="true">SomeUserPermissions</permission>
            </permissions>
         </content>

         Note that the "CreateChildren" permission is always required and will disable the entire menu if no granted for a folder.

         Also note that the old/untyped simple config still is allowed, the config snippet below will automatically be
         converted to a "pagelink" as in the example above.
         <content id="plain-text" label="create-content.text" icon="text" itemid="cm:content" mimetype="text/plain" permission="SomeUserPermissions"/>
      –>
</blockcode>
Which means you can just configure share-config-custom.xml to add a permission check on the action.

I don't believe the is an "isAdmin" permission so you'd have to create it with something like

<globalPermission permission="AdminControl" authority="ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR"/>‍

And then will be able to assign it as a permission on the create folder element

Re: Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

scouil — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:41:28 GMT

I also came across this file in the alfresco svn:
http://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/integrations/GoogleDocs/HEAD/Google%20Docs%20Share/src/main/resources/META-INF/share-config-custom.xml

So it seems you can also use an evaluator to toggle the create folder for admin only.
This would be even easier and cleaner.

Re: Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

mduduzi — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:23:00 GMT

Thanks for the response. The desired result is not to disable the folder creation action but to hide it from non admin users.

I will have a look it again tomorrow. And if there are other options please post them.

Re: Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

scouil — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:08:35 GMT

Yes, I understand that.
And that's what both of those solutions would do.

The permissions one says that the link to create a folder would only appear for someone who has your custom permission on the current folder. Making it a global permission ensures it's always the case.
The evaluator solution enables you to write some custom java code returning true or false to display/hide that same create folder action. Just returning if the user is admin would work as intended.

Re: Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

mduduzi — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:23:15 GMT

I manage to solve the problem by overriding the template toolbar.lib.ftl to hide the create folder for non admin user.

So now if a user either than the admin is logged in he won't even see that option. I will post the solution on Monday at work.

Re: Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

mduduzi — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:18:10 GMT

As promised. The below worked.
Thanks for the response. I am not sure if the there something wrong with Freemarker but the below html works:


      <#if !user.isAdmin>
         <div class="hideable toolbar-hidden DocListTree" style="display: none;">
            <div class="new-folder">
               <span id="${id}-newFolder-button" class="yui-button yui-push-button">
                  <span class="first-child">
                     <button name="newFolder">${msg("button.new-folder")}</button>
                  </span>
               </span>
            </div>
         </div>
      <#else>
         <div class="hideable toolbar-hidden DocListTree">
            <div class="new-folder">
               <span id="${id}-newFolder-button" class="yui-button yui-push-button">
                  <span class="first-child">
                     <button name="newFolder">${msg("button.new-folder")}</button>
                  </span>
               </span>
            </div>
         </div>
      </#if>
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Re: Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

cristina_lancio — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:54:25 GMT

I've tried but it doesn't work in my installation of Alfresco 4.2e….
How can I do?
I have to hide folder creation for a specific role

Thanks in advance.